Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Exaggeration

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Friends and Friendship

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Inheritance

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Marriage

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Mothers

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Power

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.